Audio/Video tech question
 

We would like to put our sermons on line on our website.

Anyone with any experience have any suggestions as to what kind of equipment is needed to do a quality video.

What kinds of cost shoud I expect?

How much webspace will be needed to archive each 45 minute sermon?

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We use a JVC HD camcorder that I picked up at Best Buy. I think I paid $300 for it. I download the video files to my Mac, convert them to DV with VisualHub and then edit them with Final Cut Express. Then I export to a .flv file and upload to our web host, Lunarpages. Our web site hosting costs us $6.00/mo with basically unlimited band width and disk space. I haven't eve come close to maxing out our allotted space yet have a few full length videos on our web site.

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Thanks John. I'll have to stop by your website and check out your video.

Any other techno guys/gals got any suggestions???

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Thats pretty much it, make sure you have sufficent lighting and no sunlight in the shots.

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We use a Flip HD camcorder (available at Best Buy or even Walmart). It plugs directly into the USB port where the video files can be dragged to the PC. From there they can be easily converted to a Flash file (.FLV) and a link created on the website direct to the file.

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Thanks fro the help. Sounds like you don't have to spend a fortune.

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Putting up mp3 sermons is even easier, theres a freeware program called "Audacity" on sourceforge that you can download and just run it right into your microphone jack of your laptop or desktop. takes about 2 minutes to get rolling. Just start a record about 15 mins before the service, and let it roll till whenever and then later do a quick edit and you can either put your entire church service up there or just the preaching, that way you can go digital and be free of tapes or CDs.

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:popcorn2 We'd like to do this as well. Any more options? I design and update our website. How do I add the player to my page?

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You referring to audio or video? There are several easy ways to do it, either with embedded code for Windows Media player or via a flash plugin. Are you wanting to do audio or video?

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is this just audio. we have that going allready. What we'd like to do is video our services and post them on our website www.newlifequadcities.com

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BTW you have to download a MP3 codec before you can export into mp3. Audacity saves in a native file format

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We do audio already with Audacity and export to mp3 when we are done. I haven't tried putting mp3s on the web page yet, but I'm guessing that I can upload them with ftp like I do with a pic. Is this true and how do I do it with a video? I think I'd want media player format. The thing is we haven't got a video camera yet.

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Here is a simple code generator script some college nerds put out there, it actually makes the code for you in a variety of formats. Windows media is usually the easiest since 99% of windows computers have it ... and really... who cares about Mac folks anyhow :)

cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/

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To help in putting MP3 file on the site we use a program called zina, all that is required is to upload the mp3 files into a folder and zina does the rest.

It is free --> http://www.pancake.org/zina
Zina in action on our sites --> http://goodpreaching.com/index.php?o...zina&Itemid=29
http://norwichtabernacle.com/index.p...zina&Itemid=59

We use it as a joomla module, but there is a standalone version.

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Plenty to absorb, I love it. Thanks for the links and keep the info coming.